{"id":178986,"date":"2025-05-30T22:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178986"},"modified":"2025-05-30T22:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:00:42","slug":"nearly-june-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/05\/30\/nearly-june-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly June already"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another year turns around. I feel that Midsummer should be when the new year starts. Ok I am obviously quite mad. Things are up and down as ever pretty much. Mostly I am about music as ever. I just tend to do stream of consciousness stuff, not story songs. But loosely everything always relates to personal experience. i do a lot of instrumental music as well though.<br>I had a terrible nights sleep last night and I am wrecked today. So not so much going on here really. I found I something on the acoustic guitar that sounded quite nice so may turn in to something. Strangely I seem have developed a fairly useful way to use half barres which allows for the other 3 fingers to do much melodic stuff. I just seemed to wake up with it. Obviously my brains been sneaking off to night school subconsciously. <br><br>Investigating an old laptop was revealing. I was actually looking for a particular photo but its got lost in translation somewhere I guess. Plus I had forgotten my password so I had to do some jiggery pokery to get in. It was a shock to see how much I had been gigging in the first 10 years with the band up until 2014 and the distances. It was often 4 to 5 times a week and we were doing work for Blues Matters Magazine too. 2014 everything changed as Vicky had the Quad Bypass op so we slowed down a lot 2 to 3 gigs a week at most afterwards. Though we did a lot of duo stuff so we made more money from less gigs. But that was then and this is now.<br>I am a rusty Greyhound comparatively speaking. My gym is jigging about onstage playing the violin, though I sometimes walk faster than many people jog if required.<br><br>A trans friend Facebook thread somebody suggested that we will all be having to flash ID when Reform takes over the country. I replied it&#8217;s ok as only about 30% of the country&#8217;s population are xenophobic racist transphobes&#8230; fair is a concept we teach our children that they often mistakenly believe in adulthood. If life was fair talented people would succeed in life more often.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2094570699&#038;color=%23503034&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/past-caring\" title=\"Past Caring\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Past Caring<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"179018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/05\/30\/nearly-june-already\/shirley-m-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?fit=1392%2C2475&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1392,2475\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1743432822&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shirley M\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M-576x1024.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?resize=768%2C1366&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?resize=864%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?resize=1152%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Shirley-M.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year turns around. I feel that Midsummer should be when the new year starts. Ok I am obviously quite mad. Things are up and down as ever pretty much. Mostly I am about music as ever. I just tend to do stream of consciousness stuff, not story songs. But loosely everything always relates to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/05\/30\/nearly-june-already\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nearly June already<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250429_205727-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1182&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KyS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1665,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2013\/07\/03\/how-much-of-life-is-chance\/","url_meta":{"origin":178986,"position":0},"title":"How much of life is chance?","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Often when I am feeling a bit off, I tend to think along certain lines. the what if creeps in, the whole thing about if I had turned left instead of right, taken this job or that, not got fired and so forth. 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